Not too long ago I ripped apart an old console TV for parts and noticed that the amp section was totaly seperate from the tunner and crt drive. So I took the whole amp section out and with about an hour's hacking I had just the amp fired up and jamming out tunes. I noticed it actualy sounded better than my current amp!! It wasnt as powerful but it did have better stereo imaging. I know its sounds crazy.
Here is my question. How do I identify what type of amp this is. I can identify some of the parts of the module like the power supply.

Has anyone here used this amp? How does it fair? This amp sounds nice, it does have some noise but I think thats from the mixer/preamp circuts. It had a volume control that was on a differant board in the TV. However, it didnt come out when the amp module came out so the wire that went to this board is connected to ground to get sound at max volume. I thought that if I put a pot to ground I could use it but just touching the wire with one hand and touching ground with the other gave full voume. Any hints as to use this as a volume/gain? I'd like to turn down the "gain" on the amp and feed it a higher level signal to lower the noisefloor a bit...